Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
The delightful convergence of three special days turned an ordinary Tuesday into a particularly sweet day around here. First came the paczkis, those pillowy Polish treats that pop up just in time for us Catholics to know exactly what we're giving up when we abstain from desserts during Lent. I picked a pack of paczkis [...]
Tomorrow, we're going to celebrate Fat Tuesday with all the Crazy-Catholic-Creole-Polish-ness we can muster, because we're three of those four things and that's 75%, a solid C. We'll take it. Life is seasonally hard and perennially fragile, so when those goods times roll we like to seize them. Laissez les bon temps rouler? We say [...]
I’m spot treating my mud-splashed pants while simultaneously doing deep squats in my laundry room, and I’m doing both to ward off the effects of an emergency Paczki run. Frankly, I’m a little cranky. Let me explain. I’m the granddaughter of a proudly Polish man. I know my way around a pieroghi. Halubki? I can [...]